The American Vandal
It may very well be that “prompt engineering” will eventually be legitimized enough to be proposed as an automated, enshittified alternative to academic writing (a ubiquitous general education requirement which neoliberal university administrators have long fantasized about sunsetting). These certificate programs are no doubt imagined by some as a step in that direction. But I see the more imminent catastrophe as the rebirth of for-profit colleges, tapeworm-like, inside public universities. To cite another Cottom truism: “EdTech is a Trojan horse for elite capture of public resources. Every time.”